{"product_id":"about-crows-paperback","title":"About Crows - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eCraig Blais\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAn unsentimental and at times disquieting first collection, the poems of \u003ci\u003eAbout Crows\u003c\/i\u003e excavate self, family, race, location, sex, art, and religion to uncover the artifacts of a succession of traumas that the speaker does not always experience firsthand but carries with him to refashion into some new importance. This is a book of half-states, broken affiliations, and dislocation. The speaker leads the reader through the fragments of a flooded town that grows increasingly elusive the more one looks for it; through a succession of Seoul \"love motels\" that further displace the outsider to unclaimed margins transformed into sites of creative invention; through \"galleries\" of artwork, where movement, color, and image are renewed through ekphrasis; and through the world of the metatextual long poem \"The Cult Poem,\" where good and bad moral binaries tangle into a rat's nest of our best and worst spiritual ambitions. The poems and sequences of \u003ci\u003eAbout Crows\u003c\/i\u003e are marked by their artistic balance of the sublime and the profane, of polyphony, syntactical complexity, clashing images, cagey humor, and unsettling sincerity, all trying desperately to connect.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eCraig Blais was born and raised in Springfield, Massachusetts. His poems have appeared in such literary journals as \u003ci\u003eBellingham Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eBest New Poets\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eHayden's Ferry Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Pinch\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eSentence\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eSpoon River Poetry Review\u003c\/i\u003e. He lives in Tallahassee, Florida.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 72\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.3 x 8.9 x 6.8 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e January 01, 1990\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eAward:\u003c\/strong\u003e Florida Book Award (2014)\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42134727295111,"sku":"9780299291945","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/2623\/2711\/files\/9303cffec910939a0ff96b5fa38a1b13.webp?v=1732644069","url":"https:\/\/booksby.splitshops.com\/products\/about-crows-paperback","provider":"Books by splitShops","version":"1.0","type":"link"}